Anaglyph movies

[P3D Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >There was a discussion on P3D in February of a number of films that were
made
> >with red on the right.
> I missed that discussion. I remember being surprised by the thread, a
year
> or two back, that few (any?) films were shot as anaglyphs. Could they
have
> been distributed as anaglyphic "RR" to impose some promotion, or the
> purchase of their "RR" glasses on a "CR" possessing public? I don't know,
> but that seems likely.

I think it's more likely that, since there really isn't a firm and
unyielding standard, someone might have tossed a coin and reversed the
(let's call it the) norm. There haven't been all that many films released
in anaglyph, at least in the mainstream commercial arena, and most of them
were anaglyph conversions of older Polaroid features. One problem is that
watching an entire feature in anaglyph gets pretty hard on the eyes and
leaves the viewer seeing discolored artifacts in the "real world" for quite
a while. Therefore most movies that used anaglyph used it only in
occasional scenes. In nudies, which were the most common kind of films to
use it, there was usually some kind of "viewer" in the plot that allowed
the hero to see girls nude, and the only 3D scenes were the ones the hero
saw when he put on the glasses. A similar gimmick was used in "The Mask" in
which the mask allowed the hero to see (3D) psychedelic hallucinations.


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